News & Analysis as of August 16, 2025

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The term "mortgage" typically refers to a mortgage loan. A mortgage loan is a financing instrument where an individual or business borrows money to purchase property (usually real property) and... more +

The Use of Trusts in Mortgage Loan Financing

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 6/26/2025

Trusts are being used more often for financing mortgage loans, which can be an effective way to optimize asset management and minimize lender risk. Key Benefits of Using Trusts in Mortgage Loan Financing...more

Insurers in the securitisation market: Securitisations of lifetime mortgages

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer on 6/9/2025

We have seen a marked increase in the volume of structured finance transactions involving lifetime mortgage products in recent years (both funding transactions and the sale and purchase of lifetime mortgage books through...more

Even If We Don’t Want To, We Should Still Talk About REMIC More

Crunched Credit on 2/20/2025

As regular readers of CrunchedCredit will know, I recently pitched the idea of amending our hoary old REMIC statute to allow additions of collateral after the startup date window to allow modification to performing loans (and...more

Structured Finance Spectrum - Summer 2024

Alston & Bird on 8/7/2024

Welcome to the latest edition of the Spectrum, covering hot-topic issues in the structured finance markets in the U.S. and UK. This edition features the new UK securitization regime, eHELOCs, and climate risk disclosures....more

Trading Is Not a Dirty Word (CRE CLO)

Crunched Credit on 2/27/2024

As we begin to reflate the CRE CLO business this year with shrinking spreads and hopefully shrinking SOFR, we need to think of this as CRE CLO 3.0. This business, this technology, which is truly a brilliant way to deliver...more

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